Those voices reached Ning Rongrong's ears.
But Ning Rongrong turned a deaf ear.
Three years to tell...
Tell what?
If Lu Ning's Wine Gourd could keep producing this effect, she could guarantee that her soul power level would surpass Tang San's and Xiao Wu's in three years!
The effect of this Wine Gourd.
It was even faster than cultivating at twice her normal speed.
And it meant cultivating around the clock, twenty-four hours a day.
One day could match an entire week in the past.
If she still couldn't surpass Tang San at this speed, it could only mean Tang San had fallen completely into becoming an Evil Soul Master!
"Three years..."
"Just wait until your jaws hit the floor!"
Lu Ning still hadn't gotten up by noon.
Instead, Zhu Zhuqing woke up and walked over to Ning Rongrong.
She took the Wine Gourd and drank a mouthful.
The soul power beginning to circulate inside her eased much of her body's exhaustion.
The only parts that still felt somewhat weak.
Were her long, fair legs.
There was no helping it.
Some bastard with an inhumanly powerful physique had kept them slung over his shoulders last night, so it was perfectly normal for them to feel a little weak now.
"Zhu Zhuqing, why do you look so tired?"
Noticing the faint dark circles beneath Zhu Zhuqing's eyes and how poorly rested she looked, Ning Rongrong asked with concern.
Zhu Zhuqing turned her face aside.
Scarlet crept over her ears again.
She couldn't explain what had happened last night to Ning Rongrong.
She could only find an excuse to brush it off. "I was a little tired last night and didn't sleep well."
Ning Rongrong nodded, half convinced.
"Yes, Lu Ning's way of teaching... really does make it hard to sleep well."
"We don't even have three hours of lessons a day."
"How could anyone not feel anxious?"
At the first part, Zhu Zhuqing's heart felt as though it had been seized, and she even restrained her breathing a little, thinking Ning Rongrong had discovered her secret with Lu Ning.
Only after hearing the rest did her heart finally settle.
Oh, she meant anxiety? I thought she meant intimacy.
"By the way, Zhu Zhuqing."
"Did you take that piece of whale rubber?"
"How effective was it?"
Even Ning Rongrong felt a little uncomfortable asking this question. She hurriedly raised the Wine Gourd and took a drink, afraid her thoughts would wander elsewhere.
"The effect..."
Zhu Zhuqing struggled inwardly.
She really didn't know how to describe that piece of whale rubber's effects to Ning Rongrong.
The effect had certainly been noticeable!
But the side effects and the intimacy had been even more noticeable!
They had surpassed the whale rubber's effects!
It had felt so good...
"What's wrong?"
"Did that piece of whale rubber have no effect?"
"I knew that bastard was lying to us!"
"You didn't get..."
Ning Rongrong studied Zhu Zhuqing before her, growing even more curious. If it hadn't worked, wouldn't Lu Ning really have achieved his aim of tricking them into sex?
Zhu Zhuqing hadn't been tricked, had she?
She looked so tired...
She definitely hadn't slept well last night.
"No, no!"
Zhu Zhuqing was a little flustered now.
For the first time, agitation appeared on her cool face.
"The whale rubber does work."
"It's just that the improvement it gives us clearly isn't very significant."
"And there are indeed some side effects."
Ning Rongrong hadn't expected such an aphrodisiac to actually work. Her gaze grew more serious, and she looked at Zhu Zhuqing, asking in all earnestness, "The improvement isn't very significant?"
"Roughly how effective was that piece of thousand-year whale rubber?"
"The side effects..."
"What side effects? Do they do much harm to our bodies?"
Ning Rongrong's barrage of questions.
Left even Zhu Zhuqing struggling to cope.
She could only begin slowly.
"The piece I ate probably wouldn't increase the age limit by even a hundred years, even after I absorbed all of it."
"The side effects..."
Zhu Zhuqing turned her head away.
Her legs were still a little unsteady.
She leaned against the wall of the Wooden Cabin.
As for what had happened last night.
There was no way she could say it hadn't hurt.
But saying the side effects were particularly severe... would indeed be deceiving Ning Rongrong a little.
"As far as ways to become stronger go, I think the side effects are still just about tolerable."
"As for whether you can accept them, that's up to you."
"From what I can tell so far, they won't leave any permanent damage."
Ning Rongrong covered her mouth in surprise.
"What?"
"It can increase the limit by around a hundred years?"
"A piece of thousand-year whale rubber can have such an incredible effect?"
Ning Rongrong stopped asking about the side effects.
As long as they didn't leave permanent damage, she could accept them.
She began calculating the improvements whale rubber could bring.
With the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's immense wealth and connections, buying this cheap whale rubber would certainly pose no problem.
One piece of whale rubber meant a hundred years. If she ate whale rubber for all three meals a day.
Then she could increase the age limit by at least three hundred years a day.
Allowing for developing a tolerance and occasionally changing things up for her palate.
She would only need a year.
And perhaps she could absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring directly!?
"No... that's impossible, right?"
Ning Rongrong still found it a little hard to believe.
If it really was that incredible.
Then the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's so-called level 79 bottleneck wouldn't be a problem at all.
She would have two yellow soul rings and five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
That would add up to at least twelve soul skills.
And a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was guaranteed to drop a soul bone.
Wouldn't that mean twenty-two soul skills!?
With that kind of amplification...
Even a pig could fight a Titled Douluo, couldn't it?
"Believe it or not..."
"After I ate it last night, it really did have that effect."
Zhu Zhuqing hadn't thought as far ahead as Ning Rongrong.
If I really ate whale rubber for every meal... wouldn't I turn into a cream puff?
No matter how healthy her body was, she couldn't possibly eat it like that.
Besides, every medicine was three parts poison. If she really ate it with such reckless abandon, she would probably become incredibly weak before she even had time to absorb a soul ring.
"I believe you!"
"I'll try some tonight!"
"Do you have any left? I don't want the thousand-year kind. Give me the ten-thousand-year whale glue!"
Ning Rongrong held out her hand.
She had already tossed yesterday's words to the back of her mind.
Right now, she only wanted to become that support-type Soul Master with twenty-two soul skills.
"...No, I only took a small piece yesterday."
"The rest is all with Lu Ning."
Zhu Zhuqing felt fortunate now, fortunate that she had only taken a small piece of thousand-year whale rubber yesterday. If she had really taken the ten-thousand-year kind, given the way she had prepared and eaten it herself, she probably wouldn't have lasted until Lu Ning came to resolve the problem.
"He took all of it?"
"How can that guy be so greedy!"
Ning Rongrong pounded on the door.
She forgot that they themselves had turned their noses up at the whale rubber yesterday.
She simply stood there condemning Lu Ning.
Woken by the rapid pounding, Lu Ning opened the door in an irritable mood.
"What?!"
"Didn't I already give you the Wine Gourd?!"
Ning Rongrong held out her little pink hand, making a begging gesture in front of Lu Ning.
"I want whale rubber."
"I want that piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue with the best effects."
Lu Ning frowned.
"No way."
"I'm keeping that piece of whale rubber for myself."
"Because I'll be making a trip to Sunset Forest sometime soon."
Ning Rongrong fluttered her eyelashes and asked in confusion, "You're going to Sunset Forest?"
After saying that, her expression became somewhat horrified.
"You..."
"You've broken through to level 40?!"
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